The development of capitalism with the industrial revolution has identified in the extroverted figure the model of success. Architectures that represent the value of commodities in the capitalistic society are the Crystal Palace and the arcades in Paris. The loud world of progress of the XX century is set against to a more introverted dimension in art, present in what Carlos Martì Aris calls “Poetry of Silence”. Figures like the architect Mies Van der Rohe and the director Yasujiro Ozu cultivate silence to interpret the chaos of that time. Examples of public and social architectures in the XXI century that follow the introspective character of the poetry of silence are illustrated, like the extension of the Tate Modern in London and the Portugal Pavilion at the 1998 EXPO in Lisbon. The XXI century is characterized by what the philosopher Byung-Chul Han calls “the burnout society”. It is based on an excess of positivity which leads to the superficial attention of multitasking, opposed to the contemplative attention which promotes calm and the listening of introversion.